Regulation 76 Powers of authorised persons

carrying out any official checks, and

ascertaining whether an offence under regulation 85(a), (b) or (c) has been or is being committed.

any premises on which he has reasonable cause to believe that a zootechnical product has been, or is being, manufactured or produced, or is being kept for the purpose of being put into circulation, placed on the market, marketed, supplied, incorporated or used, and

any premises (not being premises appearing to be used only as a dwelling) on which he has reasonable cause to believe that there is any such product which the occupier of the premises has in his possession or under his control.

that admission to the premises has been refused, or a refusal is apprehended, and that notice of the intention to apply for a warrant has been given to the occupier; or

that an application for admission, or the giving of such a notice, would defeat the object of the entry, or that the case is one of urgency, or that the premises are unoccupied or the occupier temporarily absent,

to Scotland, any reference to a justice of the peace includes a reference to the sheriff and to a magistrate, and

to Northern Ireland, the reference to a sworn information in writing includes a reference to a sworn complaint in writing.

any material appearing to him to be a zootechnical product;

any article appearing to him to be a container or package used or intended to be used to wrap, package or store any such product, or to be a label used or intended to be used in connection with any such product; or

any plant or equipment appearing to him to be used, or intended to be used, in connection with the manufacture or production of any zootechnical product, and any process of manufacture or production of such a product, and the means employed, at any stage in the process of manufacture or production, for testing the product after it has been subject to those processes.

any material appearing to him to be a zootechnical product manufactured, produced, wrapped, packaged, stored, circulated, marketed or supplied, or intended to be circulated, marketed or supplied; or

any material appearing to him to be a zootechnical product, used, or intended to be used, for the purpose of animal feeding,

in the case of Great Britain, in Part II of Schedule 1 to the Feeding Stuffs (Sampling and Analysis) Regulations 1999^f1, or

in the case of Northern Ireland, in Part II of Schedule 1 to the Feeding Stuffs (Sampling and Analysis) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1999^f2,

for all references to “feeding stuff” or to “feeding stuffs” there were substituted references to “zootechnical product” or to “zootechnical products” respectively, and

in paragraph 1 of Part II of Schedule 1 to the Regulations concerned, the expression “, except where section 68(2)(b) of the Act applies” were omitted.

to require any person carrying on, or appearing to be carrying on, a business which consists of or includes the activities of manufacture, production, wrapping, packaging, storage, circulation, marketing, supply or use of a zootechnical product, and any person employed in connection with such a business, to produce any record (in whatever form it is held) relating to or arising out of the exercise in the course of that business of any such activity, and which is in his possession or under his control, and

to inspect and take copies of any record, or of any entry in any record, produced in pursuance of the preceding sub-paragraph.

shall be entitled at any reasonable time to have access to, and inspect and check the operation of, any computer and associated apparatus or material which is or has been, or which it appears is or has been, in use in connection with the record in question;

may require—

to afford the authorised person such reasonable assistance as he may require for that purpose; and

may require the record, or an extract from the record, to be produced in a form in which it may be taken away.

“premises” includes any land, vehicle, vessel, aircraft or hovercraft; and

“zootechnical product” has the same meaning as that given to it in regulation 2(1), but also includes any substance or material (other than a machine or implement) appearing to be used, or intended to be used, in the manufacture or production of any zootechnical product.